Power stage options:- I have a good pile of CM300's not sure how many, they are buried under many boxes... 4 or so bricks maybe? Idk.- 6pcs FGH40N60SMDF- 6pcs FGH40N60SMD- 6pcs FGH60N60UFD- 5pcs FGH60N60SFD- 6pcs FGH60N60SMD

You got the driver, you got capacitors for the MMC, primary and secondary coils are also pretty much decided upon.

You have a gap between the TO-247 IGBTs and CM300 bricks, I fear that the TO-247 is not powerful enough, my DRSSTC1 used 60N60 minibricks and they are really not powerful enough to drive a 160mm diameter secondary coil. So unless you source up some SKM75/150/200 or such, I think you just use your CM300 bricks, your coil will properly be around 100 kHz and that is no problem for CM300s.

Maybe something in the range of 0.25 mm diameter wire, 1800 turns and you should get in around 120 kHz with topload of same small diameter as coil diameter and topload large diameter as coil length.

You got the driver, you got capacitors for the MMC, primary and secondary coils are also pretty much decided upon.

You have a gap between the TO-247 IGBTs and CM300 bricks, I fear that the TO-247 is not powerful enough, my DRSSTC1 used 60N60 minibricks and they are really not powerful enough to drive a 160mm diameter secondary coil. So unless you source up some SKM75/150/200 or such, I think you just use your CM300 bricks, your coil will properly be around 100 kHz and that is no problem for CM300s.

Maybe something in the range of 0.25 mm diameter wire, 1800 turns and you should get in around 120 kHz with topload of same small diameter as coil diameter and topload large diameter as coil length.

I never made a secondary coil on acrylic tubing, but sanding it would properly help against it being too slippery, you could also give it a very thin layer of varnish just before where you wind, to glue it good into a sanded area.

Even for a 110 mm diameter secondary coil, I would take the CM300 over the TO-247 IGBTs, simply to make sure its not the bridge that will limit your spark output

If you are going to use CM300, I guess that 1000Apeak is more than enough for this small coil, properly way more than it can handle, so lets say 600A and assume that you use single phase 230VAC, simply because 3 phase for 564VDC, the higher voltage will not match the secondary

325VDC/600 = 0.15 / (2*pi*110khz*0.3uF)0,69 < 0,72

This would be a high impedance circuit from the low capacitance, which can be seen from the low peak current, so this would require long on-times

If we really want to party and build a low impedance coil (which is generally more expensive)

325VDC/1500 = 0.15 / (2*pi*110khz*0.6uF)0,27 < 0,36

But here you will properly run into more fun issues like heating secondary coil

For the choice of primary coil I would go with a flat spiral coil, start it 2-3cm away from the secondary, keep a coupling at 0.15 or up to 0.2 if you feel adventurous, depending on inductance needed you could vary the turn spacing, but be sure to leave 1-2 turns extra than the tuning point, so you can detune the primary circuit in order to run the coil in lower pole mode, explained very well here: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=78.msg624#msg624

If you are going to use CM300, I guess that 1000Apeak is more than enough for this small coil, properly way more than it can handle, so lets say 600A and assume that you use single phase 230VAC, simply because 3 phase for 564VDC, the higher voltage will not match the secondary

325VDC/600 = 0.15 / (2*pi*110khz*0.3uF)0,69 < 0,72

This would be a high impedance circuit from the low capacitance, which can be seen from the low peak current, so this would require long on-times

If we really want to party and build a low impedance coil (which is generally more expensive)

325VDC/1500 = 0.15 / (2*pi*110khz*0.6uF)0,27 < 0,36

But here you will properly run into more fun issues like heating secondary coil

For the choice of primary coil I would go with a flat spiral coil, start it 2-3cm away from the secondary, keep a coupling at 0.15 or up to 0.2 if you feel adventurous, depending on inductance needed you could vary the turn spacing, but be sure to leave 1-2 turns extra than the tuning point, so you can detune the primary circuit in order to run the coil in lower pole mode, explained very well here: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=78.msg624#msg624

Thanks for the information.

I figure I'll start off with 0.3-0.4uF and move on towards more in the future if I feel playful.

The capacitors I have are

942C20P1K-F, 2000V @ 0.1uF 288Apk, 12.1Arms

I'm not sure how many Volts I need for my primary capacitance, I've always been curious why we have one higher then the silicon really...

As you can see it quickly takes a lot of capacitors to get a higher capacitance, with higher capacitance comes lower primary inductance (to maintain the same resonant frequency), then peak current goes up, which results in higher voltage rating needed, as the voltage across the MMC is equal to the impedance Zc of the MMC multiplied with the peak current your controller is set to limit at. Add some head room for transients etc.

As it looks like you have the capacitors for a 0.3 uF MMC, lets try to work out a solution for that. Here I went with a primary coil that can be ~10% detuned compared to the secondary resonant frequency.

4000V @ 0.3uF and 1728Apk, 72.6Arms, 2 series of 6 in parallel looks like a fine solution as you have some head room for the voltage rating, peak current is grossly overrated, but that is general problem when using CDE942 capacitors, as they have a relatively high peak current rating to their small capacitance, so many is needed in parallel.

If we want to be sure that we never have more than 3kV on the MMC, lets check what peak current is then the limit

So maybe it is desirable to build a MMC that can withstand a higher voltage, bu then also start over on the calculations as the peak current will rise too with longer on-time, or just run with 600Apeak and longer on-time, but this will properly result in long damped energy transfers. Longer on-times results in higher losses, but its also cheaper to build, it is all one big pool of choices in regard to money, performance and reliability